‘Made By Few’ Conference Returns Oct. 1-3

New York designer/artist James Victore speaks to a packed house at the Argenta Community Theater on the opening day of the 2014 Made by Few conference.

Made by Few, the conference for “makers of the web” that attracts speakers, developers, designers and entrepreneurs from across the country, returns for its fourth run Oct. 1-3 in downtown Little Rock’s River Market District.

Organized by Little Rock design and development firm Few, the conference has grown in stature and is considered one of the country’s true “up-and-coming” tech conferences.

This year, more than 250 attendees will represent 25 states and draw from outside the country as well. Cities represented will include Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Memphis and Portland, Oregon.

Video: Here’s coverage from Arkansas Business of last year’s conference.

This year’s event is headlined by Randy J. Hunt, vice president of Design at Etsy; Tobias van Schneider, lead designer at Spotify, and Christian Rudder, co-founder of OK Cupid. Other speakers include:

• Aaron Draplin, founder Draplin Design Co.
• Ash Huang, independent designer/writer
• Kyle Durrie, proprietor of Power and Light Press
• Elana Schlenker, publisher at Gratuitous Type
• Harper Reed, founder at Modest Inc.
• Jason Scott, archivist at Internet Archive

The main part of the conference will take place at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater on Clinton Avenue in the River Market. Other events will take place at the Museum of Discovery and the Junction Bridge. 

A full schedule of speakers and events is available here.

One component of the event is the Designed by Few competition, in which designers compete for a $500 cash prize. All designs from this year’s contest will benefit the THEA Foundation.

Tickets are avialble to all events and available here. 

Few Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Arlton Lowry described Made by Few as a love letter to the Arkansas creative and development community. 

“We started this event four years ago with hopes of enhancing connections between the Arkansas technology and creative community with those outside of Arkansas,” he said. “It’s about building up our community, having fun and inspiring people.”